Sounding Sensory Profiles in the Ancient Near East
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: Aug 16, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781628372410
Description: "For several decades sociologists and cultural anthropologists have intensively researched the role of the senses in a variety of cultures, and their studies reveal how different cultures understand and evaluate the five or more senses in unique ways. In this collection of eighteen essays, biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars apply the questions and methods raised by cultural anthropologists to Israel, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Experts offer insights into the meaning of the senses in ancient texts and images, examining the classical senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting) as well as other senses (such as kinethesis and the sense of balance) and sense-related issues (such as disgust, sensory imagination, and disabilities)."--
Notes: Source title: Sounding Sensory Profiles in the Ancient Near East (Ancient Near East Monographs)